Did McNally's Some Men Get a Warm Reception in Philadelphia?

The Philadelphia Theatre Company is currently hosting the world premiere of Terrence McNally's Some Men, which looks at the evolution of gay relationships and same-sex marriage in America. The play is already set to be part of Second Stage Theatre's 2006-2007 off-Broadway season. Did local critics applaud McNally's Men? Here is a sampling of what they had to say:

Toby Zinman of The Philadelphia Inquirer: "I am, frankly, mystified: What is this play's purpose? Who is its intended audience? On the one hand, it seems to be a stroll down memory lane for homosexual men of a certain pre-Stonewall age. On the other hand, it seems to be a history lesson, a kind of after-school special for those heterosexuals who know about gay men only by the stereotypes that feed prejudice and homophobia and assume they are promiscuous, body-obsessed show queens who adore Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland. But instead of dispelling these stereotypes, the show trades on them. We meet many characters, of many ages, but they don't talk about their jobs, apparently read no books except the Bible, never go to the movies, never vote in elections or discover restaurants, or read newspapers, or go to museums, or play sports, or worry about the state of the world. Their only conversational subject is their own homosexuality."

Kevin Riordan of The Courier-Post: "If anyone could save Some Men, it's John Glover. Every time this terrific actor gets a chance, he single-handedly resuscitates the Philadelphia Theatre Company's world premiere production of Terrence McNally's latest play. The rest of Some Men—a didactic hodgepodge of vignettes about gay male life in Manhattan—barely breathes. Despite the abundance of onstage and offstage talent involved, the play is as theatrically inert as a power-point presentation in a freshman history course."